Amazon Australia, fresh from its push to change the local retail landscape after launching here in 2017, is now turning its attention to the next generation of coders with a STEM program for primary school students. Camp Amazon is a two-year $150,000 initiative for 100 kids in years 3 to 6 to develop their… Read more »
A class action against Uber from taxi drivers has the potential to be Australia’s biggest class action More than 6000 people among 57,000 potential claimants have already signed up for the case Class action lawyers Maurice Blackburn lodged the claim in the Victorian Supreme Court today Global ridesharing app Uber is facing a major legal… Read more »
Australia’s coworking space boom is about to step up another notch with Singapore-based JustCo set to opening centres in Sydney and then Melbourne at the end of the financial year. JustCo launched in September 2015 and its rapid expansion now has grown to 30 locations across six Asian nations, including Thailand, Indonesia, China, South Korea… Read more »
Australian VC firm, Brandon Capital Partners, has just raised another $210 million to invest in commercialising medical research, and is already on the hunt for another $250 million as it edges towards $1 billion in science investments. The 5th Medical Research Commercialisation Fund, MRCF5, raised AU$210 million from existing investors, taking the total in the… Read more »
Two Australian scientists and startup founders will head to America’s prestigious Stanford University to study after impressing the CSIRO’s with their ideas during the organisation’s recent ON Accelerate program. Stephen Trowell, founder and MD of Parts Per Billion, and Melanie White, co-founder and director of Inova Medical, will receive $30,000 each towards travel and their… Read more »
One of Startup Daily’s favourite newsletters, which lands in our inbox daily, comes from Anand Sanwal of CB Insights, a US technology business that uses AI-based software to analyse data and predict trends in tech. Their claim to fame is they “help corporations replace the three Gs (Google searches, gut instinct and guys… Read more »
Investors and companies spent more than $2.6 billion on tech startups in the first three months of 2019, but the cash splash looks set to dry up if the longer-term trend continues according to Startup and tech directory Techboard, which released its March 2019 quarterly funding report today. It was a good quarter for mature startups… Read more »
Startup and tech directory Techboard, released its March 2019 quarterly funding report today and despite more than $1 billion being raised in more than 150 funding deals in the first three months of the year, the longer-term trends suggest the cash-hungry sector’s well is slowly drying up, even with around two-thirds of the… Read more »
Techboard, Australia’s largest startup and tech directory, released its latest quarterly funding report today, revealing the March 2019 quarter was a bumper period for the sector when it came to funding. While the finalisation of the bid for online property exchange network PEXA (Property Exchange Australia Ltd), launched in late 2018 by the Commonwealth… Read more »
Online tutoring startup Cluey, which wants to change the way kids learn using tech and AI, has raised $20 million in Series A funding. International technology investor Allectus Capital and Alex Waislitz’s Thorney Investment Group, including the listed Thorney Technologies Ltd, led the round, which takes the total raised to $31 million. Cluey is the… Read more »
Melbourne educational training startup A Cloud Guru (ACG) has raised US$33 million (A$47m) from US and local investors, including Summit Partners and Airtree Ventures, just four years after brothers Sam and Ryan Kroonenburg launched the platform. As technological disruption cuts its way through a swathe of industry sectors, the Kroonenburgs has been working with a… Read more »
Creel Price’s angel investment firm, Investible, is on the hunt for champion tech startups seeking Series A or B capital, to be part of China’s annual Overseas Talent Entrepreneurship Conference (OTEC) this July. Now in its seventh year, OTEC in Beijing is one of the world’s largest VC events, and last year attracted more than… Read more »
Elon Musk’s satellite broadband, Starlink, is coming to Sydney in 2021
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Canva buys two design startups after doubling its monthly users to 50 million in just 12 months
Westpac teams up with lending fintech SocietyOne for digital banking play
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